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  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 6,024
    Where the hell is Alicia Keys - Bob Dylan.
  • jose
    jose Posts: 1,472
    (I heard) Sonny Boy Blow.
    John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers.

  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,756
    Jaques Brel

    Les Bonbons

    "Et nous voilà sur la Grand' Place
    Sur le kiosque on joue Mozart
    Mais dites-moi que c'est par hasard
    Qu'il y a là votre ami Léon
    Si vous voulez que je cède ma place
    J'avais apporté des bonbons"
  • Redvaliant
    Redvaliant Posts: 544
    The Clash 1977, no Elvis, Beatles or the stones.

    The Wild hearts 29x the pain, references Husker Du, The Replacements, The Beatles, The stones and the Ramones.
  • StreekDerek
    StreekDerek Posts: 367
    edited June 25
    Bob Dylan references them a lot. As already mentioned Song to Woodie Guthrie, Alicia Keys on Thunder on the Mountain but also Blind Willie McTell, Goodbye Jimmy Reed, Neil Young on Highlands to mention just a few. Too many to mention on Murder Most Foul.
  • Dave Rudd
    Dave Rudd Posts: 3,059
    Not a musician (well, not that I am aware), but Van Morrison references Carl Leaburn in the opening line of "Russian Roulette".

    Russian Roulette
  • jose
    jose Posts: 1,472
    Van Morrison references the great Jimmy Rogers in ‘Cleaning Windows’.
    ’I went home and listened to Jimmy Rogers on my lunch break’.
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 1,171
    LennyLowrent said:
    Jaques Brel

    Les Bonbons

    "Et nous voilà sur la Grand' Place
    Sur le kiosque on joue Mozart
    Mais dites-moi que c'est par hasard
    Qu'il y a là votre ami Léon
    Si vous voulez que je cède ma place
    J'avais apporté des bonbons"
    oiy! no Welsh...
  • BOWAddick
    BOWAddick Posts: 21
    Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention 'The Mothers Fillmore East - June 1971' album.

    'Mud Shark' - about a Vanilla Fudge home movie.

    'Do you like my new car?'
    lyrics include;

    'have you ever met Davey Jones? or Bobby Sherman?
    I mean... David Cassady, he's so...
    Jimmy Greenspoon, once I...
    Three Dog Night?!!
    We are not groupies! You better understand that!.. I told Robert Planet, I told Elton John, I told all those big guys...Roger Daltrey never laid a hand on me!

    Absolutely filthy stuff but hilarious!
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,756
    "I still have that record
    Of Little Anthony and The Imperials
    But someone stole my record player
    Now how do ya like that?"



    Tom Waits:
    Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis

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  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 8,526
    Eminem mentions Phil Collins in “Stan”.

    He name drops so many people in his songs, to be fair, but I find this one amusing, partly because it buys into the urban myth surrounding “In the air tonight”.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 22,235
    Springsteen mentions Roy Orbison singing for the lonely in Thunder Road
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 86,476
    BOWAddick said:
    Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention 'The Mothers Fillmore East - June 1971' album.

    'Mud Shark' - about a Vanilla Fudge home movie.

    'Do you like my new car?'
    lyrics include;

    'have you ever met Davey Jones? or Bobby Sherman?
    I mean... David Cassady, he's so...
    Jimmy Greenspoon, once I...
    Three Dog Night?!!
    We are not groupies! You better understand that!.. I told Robert Planet, I told Elton John, I told all those big guys...Roger Daltrey never laid a hand on me!

    Absolutely filthy stuff but hilarious!
    Deep Purple reference "Frank Zappa and the Mothers" in Smoke on the Water
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 86,476
    "The night I heard Curuso sing" EBTG
  • Diebythesword
    Diebythesword Posts: 865
    Purple stain by red hot chili peppers

    ”Python power straight from Monty
    Celluloid loves got a John Frusciante”
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,376
    edited June 25
    1985 by Bowling for Soup includes 13 other artists names.
    There's another song I can't now remember that was pretty much just a long list. (Moby?)

    Edited to add: Got it - well it was four letters beginning with M - Mylo
    Destroy Rock & Roll.


    Here's the lyrics:
    Michael Jackson
    Prince,
    Bruce Springsteen,
    Tina Turner,
    David Bowie,
    Van Halen,
    Madonna,
    Huey Lewis & The News,
    The Cars,
    Herbie Hancock,
    Bonnie Tyler,
    Stevie Nicks,
    Men At Work,
    ZZ Top,
    Paul MCartney & Michael Jackson,
    Weird Al Yankovic,
    Cyndi Lauper,
    Pink Floyd,
    The Pretenders,
    Billy Joel,
    Billy Idol,
    Elton John,
    Neil Young,
    Sheena Easton,
    Patty Smith & Scandal,
    Fashion,
    Big Country,
    Morris Day & The Time,
    John Lennon,
    Apollonia Six
    REO Speedwagon,
    David Gilmour,
    The Rolling Stones,
    Pat Benetar,
    Hall & Oats,
    Wham,
    Randy Jackson,
    Adam Ant,
    Bananarama,
    Christine Lavin,
    Queen,
    John Cougar Mellencamp
    U2,
    Spheres,
    Fleetwood Mac,
    The Alan Parsons Project,
    Rick Springfield,
    The Thompson Twins,
    Missing Persons,
    Duran Duran,
    Breathe,
    Eurythmics,
    Culture Club including Boy George,
    Band Aid,
    Relax,


    it's Missing Persons,
    Duran Duran,
    it's Missing Persons,
    Duran Duran,

    Duran Duran
    Duran Duran
    Duran Duran

    Culture Club including Boy George,
    Band Aid,
    Relax,
    Stevie Wonder...

  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,846
    White Man in Hammersmith Palais:
    The Clash.

    Dillinger
    Leroy Smart
    Delroy Wilson (Cool operator)
    Ken Boothe
    Four Tops
  • Vienna_Addick
    Vienna_Addick Posts: 343
    Whenever you're sad, whenever you're blue, whenever your troubles are heavy.
    Beneath the stars you play your guitars, just like Eddie.

    (Cochran, that is)

    If I remember correctly, the song was released around the time Eddie Firmani returned to Charlton.
  • jose
    jose Posts: 1,472
    Johnny Cash
    The Night Hank Williams Came to Town.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FtjbiJGnJw
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,376
    The Miracles in The Motown Song by Rod Stewart (with The Temptations providing backing vocals).

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  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,609
    Daft Punk is playing at my house - LCD Soundsystem

    Lady Day [Billie Holliday] and John Coltrane - Gil Scott Heron

    "The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb or Francis Scott Keys
    Nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash
    Engelbert Humperdinck, or The Rare Earth" - The Revolution will not be Televised - Gil Scott Heron
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,609
    lordromford said:
    Eminem mentions Phil Collins in “Stan”.

    He name drops so many people in his songs, to be fair, but I find this one amusing, partly because it buys into the urban myth surrounding “In the air tonight”.
    He's pretty brutal about Moby on Without Me
  • redlanered
    redlanered Posts: 2,271
    Long May You Run  - Neil Young 
    "Maybe the Beach Boys have got you now..."

    The Seeker - The Who
    "I asked Bobby Dylan, I asked The Beatles"
  • cafc-4-life
    cafc-4-life Posts: 1,367
    My band referenced Beyonce, Britney (Spears), Justin (Timberlake), Whitney (Houston) in our single "Another Love Song".

    This counts right? Whilst chucking a few of their song titles in there to relate to their names.

    https://open.spotify.com/track/2CUveN94r3jkqShQQyoWtw?si=a056b36bc3c44948
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,771
    Night-shift by the Commodores is a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson 
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,771
    edited June 25
    Gillian Welch did Elvis Presley Blues.

    Black Eyed Susans have 'Smokin Johnny Cash'
     
    Alabama 3 have 'Hello i'm Johnny Cash'
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,727
    My Boy Elvis - Janis Martin
    I Dreamed I was Elvis -  Sonny Cole
    Tennessee - Carl Perkins (mentions Ernest Tubb, Eddie Arnold and Red Foley)
    Just Like Eddie - Heinz
    Big Bopper's Wedding - Big Bopper
    R-O-C-K - Bill Haley and his Comets (mentions Strauss and W.C. Handy)
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,383
    Little known fact here, but "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace isn't actually about the Windy City in the USA.

    It's actually about when Peter Callendar, the co-writer, went to see the soft/jazz rock band "Chicago" on a UK tour and they stunk the place out and died on their arses. 

    He wrote the song and later added in all the guff about Al Capone and the like purely out of respect for his fellow musicians.
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 11,421
    Clearly songs that mention names of musicians are ten a penny and not worthy of testing the CL cognoscenti. Let’s switch to something a bit more testing like songs that mention football manager names. I’ll start….


  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,841
    edited June 26
    Luciano Michelini wrote a very jolly little number called Frolic, though most people know it as the Curbs your Enthusiasm theme.

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